As an artist, it’s both informative and delightful to see who is listening to you, what else they listen to, the hours of life someone is soundtracking with your music, this love-letter of time spent with each other accounted for in plays, percentages, rankings.
We’ve surely done this with our own favorite records and it is meaningful to be a favorite, meaningful to have our music loved as we have loved music. For this, the #SpotifyWrapped is sweet and meaningful.
The problem comes with 1) compensation: millions of plays rendered relatively meaningless in a fiscal sense, a year’s worth of one’s music of being on repeat not even affording a month’s rent in some places is a FUCKING travesty
2) Meanwhile the CEO’s net worth is 3.8 billion dollars, 100 million of which is presently being invested in AI defense tech start-up Helsing. It’s one’s business what they do with their money but when that money is made off of our music, it feels like it’s important to speak up
This is to say: fans and listeners, thank you so, so much for your support. It means the world, really. Spotify: come up with a more fair model of financial compensation for artists.
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